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This analysis is deeply flawed because of that. They include vans and light trucks in the car numbers, but the electric vehicle are all passenger. To do this
by ars 3y ago
This analysis is deeply flawed because of that.
They include vans and light trucks in the car numbers, but the electric vehicle are all passenger.
To do this correctly they simply need to use the average MPG for a passenger car. That's it - from just that you can do all the math, you don't need the total fuel consumption in the US.
- wuliwong 3y agoI do that calculation in the article. >We can also use 24.2 mpg as the average fuel economy for a gas powered vehicle in the U.S. [10] to expand on our approach, slightly. Using this value we find a slightly largely value for total gallons of gasoline burned per year of 163 billion. That is a good point about passenger EVs vs vans and light trucks. I'm not sure if it makes the analysis "deeply flawed" as it would proceed the same way just possibly switching the actual number used in one place.